Dell RecoverPoint vs Dell SRDF (Symmetrix Remote Data Facility ) [EOL] comparison

"It excels in duplicating data between two distinct types of storage systems."

"It has improved RTO and RPO."

"The image backup feature is great. For example, if you set the journal to take a backup every ten minutes, it will create a snapshot or pointer every ten minutes for as long as you need."

"The setups that we have in place are great."

"Product is self-payable, and due to the data protection provided to the IT environment, we can reach very secure operational levels."

"The tool's most valuable feature is stability."

"It is amazing because it is very easy to test with many alternative bookmarks."

"It can replicate data from a distant location and it can scan it as well. It has continuous data replication with almost no data loss."

"The feature of taking snapshots from the replicated volumes has allowed us to use them for DR testing to validate the application consistent point of recovery."

"The SRDF solution has improved our disaster recovery RPO to near zero or less than 15 minutes with RTO getting drastically reduced."

"We've found the support to be very good overall."

"Customer Service: Very good. Technical Support: Very good."

"Customer Service: Top notch. Technical Support: Excellent."

"In all the companies in which I have used the product the ease of Disaster Recovery was implemented in such a manner that the risk of a site disaster was mitigated in an efficient way, and it made the migrations of complete data centers to other new data centers at other locations a piece of cake."

"Customer service for this product was top notch."

"We've found the support to be very good overall."

"I am waiting for block replication with VirtualBox."

"Considering the speed Dell RecoverPoint can recover data, it would be good if we could replicate data from on-premise to the cloud with this solution."

"The support is horrible."

"Dell RecoverPoint is affordable for enterprises but not for mid-size organizations due to the required network investment for bandwidth across sites."

"Dell RecoverPoint is considered an older technology and is not recommended for new deployments by Dell EMC. It requires double the storage capacity for source and target storage areas, which creates a heavy burden on storage resources."

"RecoverPoint's WAN optimization could be improved."

"When it comes to storage and backup, that is where scalability problems have affected us."

"The interfaces could be improved for better ease of use. There's also room for improvement in direct compatibility with other solutions."

"The main pain point that we experienced is during device creation. For every newly provisioned volume, creating replication relationships between production and DR site, creating snapshots for third copy at DR site, and configuring them in appropriate replication groups and device groups means that there are lot of steps involved and a lot of room for error. There has to be a lot of checks and balances which need to be incorporated to make sure that the solution is set up correctly."

"As of late I have seen the replication drop but this was not due to the SRDF, it was due to the high rate of IO changes on the OS side."

"If you are new to the product, the initial setup might be a bit difficult."

"Our ROI was minimal, because we use it for a cold, disaster recovery method."

"The main pain point that we experienced is during device creation."

"In general, it’s very stable although some time SRDF don’t behave as expected specially if the link is not stable or saturated."

"If you are new to the product, the initial setup might be a bit difficult."

"SRDF compared with EMC Recover Point has less capabilities, for ex. CDP (local or remote) is missing, only EMC assets compatibility, as a TCO is more expensive than implementing IBM SVC or EMC VPLEX virtualization and replication (more supported assets)."

"The product is fairly priced."

"Support is an additional subscription."

"It is considered quite costly."

"The price is moderate."

"While I recommend Dell EMC, it depends on your specific use case. Licensing is perpetual, meaning you buy it once."

"RecoverPoint came free as an add-on to the PowerProtect Data Manager backup software from Dell EMC."